Montana snowpack above average; streamflows expected to be double last year

Here are some up-to-date numbers on snowpack and expected stream runoff from today’s Missoulian . . .

Snowpack across the state of Montana remains above average, and spring runoff flows should be nearly twice what they were last spring.

Snowpack numbers statewide show 120 percent of average, and a whopping 185 percent of last year’s paltry snowpack . . .

Columbia River drainages – Kootenai, Flathead, Clark Fork and Bitterroot – range from 107 percent of average snowpack to a whopping 129 percent in the Flathead drainage.

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